After the good results of the World Youth Championships came over, the domestic sports media once again fell into a high tide.

Like Zeng Fanfang, who scored in the last game against the United States national youth team, Huang Zichang became the focus of attention in this game.

"Finally, outside of the youth academy of the Longteng team, we have another talent who is not like a Chinese player. ”

"Look at it, look at it, Huang Zichang is our Suning. ”

Of course, what attracts the attention of fans more is the national football team that is training.

On June 7, the Chinese national football team that trained in Guangzhou warmed up with a warm-up match, and the opponent was the Philippine training team.

Lippi still arranged a 4-3-3 formation, which tested the team's attacking power, and the players did not disappoint the coach, winning 10-0, Nie Jiang completed his first big four in the national team, and the rest of the goals were scored by six different people.

On June 8, the Chinese national team flew to Johor Bahru, Malaysia, in addition to the regular treatment of charter flights and private chefs, the national football team will also use the best football training venues in Malaysia and even the entire Southeast Asia region for free. In order to cooperate with the preparation of the national football team, the lighting equipment of the main training ground was specially updated.

The Chinese Football Association also provided three business charter flights this time, in order to fly to the imperial capital, demon capital and Jiangcheng respectively when returning to China after the game, so as not to delay the time for the players to return to the club and solve the players' worries about the league.

The logistics support of the Chinese Football Association can be described as "reaching the peak".

Even though this has been achieved, the injury still appeared, the captain of the national team, Zheng Zhi, fell after colliding with his teammates in pre-match training, and later found that it was a fracture of the left eye, to be exact, a fracture of the ethmoid cardboard of the face, and a broken bone affected his eye.

Zheng Zhi twice expressed his desire to compete, but Lippi did not agree.

Because Lippi also consulted the team doctor, the team doctor said that it was best for Zheng Zhi not to participate in the competition until the fracture was healed, because if he was hit in the face again, Zheng Zhi was likely to be blind for life.

Fortunately, compared to history, the Chinese national team has more players who can be selected by Lippi, such as Lin Feng, Xu Mingyu and Qi Ming, who can play Zheng Zhi's position.

Compared with the methodical preparation of the national team, the preparation of the national youth team is more compact.

After playing 120 minutes against Venezuela, the Chinese national youth team also traveled from Jeonju to Daejeon, and thankfully, in South Korea, where the weather forecast can be completed when there is rain in the whole country, this is not far away, and with the well-developed railway system in South Korea, the team quickly reached Daejeon.

The opponent of the Chinese national youth team, the Uruguayan national youth team, is here because the last game was here, and they are waiting for the arrival of the Chinese national youth team.

If the Venezuelan national youth team is a dark horse, then the Uruguayan national youth team is a regular at the World Youth Championships, they have participated in this competition for the sixth consecutive time, and in the 2013 World Youth Championships, Uruguay reached the final, they were facing the French national youth team that eliminated the Chinese national youth team to enter the final, Uruguay only lost on penalties in the match with the team with Pogba.

After beating Saudi Arabia 1-0 in the quarter-finals, they drew 2-2 with Portugal U20 in regular time in the last quarter-finals, and finally won on penalties to defeat their opponents.

At the end of this game, Uruguay U20 maintained the first place in the odds of winning the championship, and is still favored by various institutions, of course, there is a reason why it has been favored since before the start of the World Youth Championships.

If you just look at the registration information on the squad, the Uruguayan national youth team does not seem to be remarkable: the main players are from the domestic league, and several key players are from the European league. The U.S. and Venezuelan national teams replied, "I'm the same." ”

But the teams in the Europa League are not the same as the teams in the Europa League, and the positioning of the players themselves is also different.

At first glance, the U.S. national youth team also has players from Manchester City, players from Arsenal, and the same is true for Venezuela, but if you look at the overseas players of the Uruguayan national youth team, you will find a big difference.

While most of the players in the United States and Venezuela are on loan, the opposite is true for Uruguay.

Uruguay's long-captain central defender Santiago Bueno is from Barcelona and is on loan in La Liga B, while Federico Valverde from Real Madrid has Federico Valverde in midfield, who is now on loan at La Liga Deportivo and is a regular who has since established himself in the Real Madrid first team. The other midfielder is Boca Juniors' midfielder Bentancur, who will join Juventus after playing in the World Youth Championships, and he has long been an indispensable member of Juventus in the future;

It can be said that this is an opponent that the Chinese national youth team will never want to encounter.

In this game, the Chinese national youth team is still in a 3-5-2 formation, compared to the attack, coach Maddaloni obviously believes in the team's defensive ability, you know, from the group stage to the present, the Chinese national youth team can not concede a goal, maintaining a record of clean sheet opponents.

In the last game against Venezuela, the cheers of the fans helped the team tremendously. Before the game, the Chinese students in South Korea contacted each other again and prepared to cheer for the Chinese national youth team. For example, at several universities in Daejeon Metropolitan City, Chungnam National University, Baekchai University, and Daejeon University, everyone joined together on the night of the national youth team to discuss how to organize cheers.

At 4 p.m. local time in South Korea, the first semi-final of this World Youth Championship officially started at the Daejeon World Cup Arena, and a large number of Chinese fans poured into the stadium with a capacity of 41,000 people.

In this year's World Youth Championships, except for the game where the host South Korea is located, there will be eight or nine floors of attendance on the court, and the other games are basically four or five thousand people, the only exception is the game of the Chinese national youth team.

As the team's form gradually improved, and more and more people came to watch the game, according to the statistics of the organizing committee after the game, more than 12,000 fans came to watch the game, of course, this is also related to the fact that it was a Sunday rest day.

This game, even though it was Thursday, was more than half the stadium visible to the naked eye, and it was all red.

After the start of the game, the stadium was full of the sound of "come on the Chinese team", which completely became the home game of the Chinese national youth team.

Su Dong was in charge of commenting on the game: "The strength of the Uruguayan national youth team is very strong, but how to give full play to their strength is their biggest problem. Looking at this edition of the tournament, Uruguay's star players are concentrated in the midfield, but the actual goals are not much, and they have scored a total of six goals so far, which is worth noting that these six goals have been completed by six different people. ”

"One shot...... Door", when introducing the situation of the Uruguayan national youth team, the team's forward de la Cruz suddenly came to a long shot, and Su Dong also sacrificed his habitual style of commenting on the goal of Europe and the United States, "From de la Cruz, this ball is very dangerous, and there is no one in the midfield of the Chinese national youth team to follow him." ”

Partnered with Su Dong was Meng Hongtao, who commented on the Chinese national youth team in the last game: "De la Cruz is a very interesting player. He comes from Liverpool, Uruguay, which has the same name as Liverpool in the Premier League. But now it is said that Milan has signed him, but this player has a characteristic, he is married, he is still homesick, he does not want to leave his family, he just wants to play in South America, Milan has to loan him to the Argentine giants River Plate. In fact, according to his strength, he can play in the five major leagues in Europe. ”

The opening of the Uruguayan national youth team made the Chinese national youth team more vigilant.

A team that focuses on defense is actually most afraid of playing cards in such a tournament. Like these players on the field now, including Jiang Shenglong, Wu Wei, Zhu Chenjie, Xiang Tiange, Peng Langjun, Zeng Fanfang, Zhang Yuning, as many as seven players have yellow cards, if they get a yellow card again in this game, they will be automatically suspended, even if the Chinese national youth team reaches the final of the World Youth Championships, they will not be able to play.

So it's understandable that de la Cruz was vacated in the midfield just now - the midfield defenders of the national youth team, Wu Wei and Jiang Shenglong, have scruples.

Soon Maddaloni's roar from the sidelines made them put these scruples behind them, after all, they were professional players and knew that they should give their all on the pitch.

For the rest of the game, the managers of both sides felt that the game was getting into its own rhythm.

When it comes to Uruguay's style of football, it starts with Tavares, the spiritual leader of their country's football.

After being dismissed by Boca Juniors at the age of 55, after a period of reflection, in 2006 he submitted to the Uruguayan Football Federation a document on the "National Team System and Player Development Plan at All Levels", and after being recognized, he threw himself into it.

In football, this plan is as important in football as Portugal coach Queiroz's 113-page "Outline for the Development of American Soccer in 1995", as important as Saburo Kawabuchi's "Centennial Plan for Japanese Soccer in 1996", and even as important as the "Ten-Year Plan for the Revival of German Football" by the German Football Association in 2000.

Looking at the real history, China only issued the "Medium and Long-term Development Plan for Chinese Football" in 2016, and the revival of football in the United States and Japan, Uruguay and Germany is not without reason.

In the years since Tavares took over, he has led the work from the Under-15s to the senior national team, with Edinson Cavani and Luis Suarez being the fruit of that work.

Tavares never dictates any specific tactics to be played by Uruguay's national teams at all levels, but they all adhere to the same tactical principles: the way they press their opponents and the defensive system of the whole game. Tavares is more about helping young people grow, and he has even created a psychological department to help young people manage their emotions and complete their studies.

Fabian Coito, the current head coach of the Uruguayan national youth team, is a true believer in Tavares' football philosophy.

From the beginning of the game, the Uruguayan national youth team pressed the Chinese national youth team all over the field.

The duo of the famous "bad boy" Rodrigo Amaral and Schiapacasse have been constantly harassing the Chinese defence, and Valverde and de la Cruz have often pressed suddenly, combining the two strikers to surround and scramble.

It was difficult for the Chinese national youth team to easily push the ball into the 30-meter area of the Uruguayan team's defense through positional battles.

Of course, in fact, this is not a way for the Chinese national youth team to attack.

Compared with the Chinese national youth team that reached the semifinals of the World Youth Championship in 2013, this national youth team has less Qin Minghao in the midfield, Xu Mingyu has a technical advantage in the midfield, but the strength of the players on the side is between them and them, and more importantly, the ability value of the supporting players is far higher than the original national youth team.

The difference in the playing style of the two national youth teams before and after is also related to the difference in the head coach.

The previous head coach who led the 2013 national youth team was Rick Link, who was a Dutchman who admired an all-attacking and all-defensive style of play and was extremely obsessed with ground advancement, and now the head coach Madaloni is the Italian manager, and the difference is huge.

In the eyes of the Italians, tactics are made for the game, and it doesn't matter if they are conservative or not.

Therefore, in the eyes of outsiders, it is a dirty and tiring defense, but it is also played by them - chain defense has become a tactic with an artistic temperament.

In attack, the Italians have always had different styles, the front court is a player with technical flow, I use layers of advancement, use ball control to gain offensive space, just like Milan's four No. 10 Christmas trees, if the players in the team are strong and tall, they will go straight to the center of the tactics, just like in Euro 2016 when Perrin was used to the extreme.

Like Carlo Ancelotti is an exemplary and typical Italian manager.

Before he became famous, he traveled to many middle and lower teams, facing a variety of teams with different personnel and bosses with different requirements, trying his best to meet the wishes of fans and owners.

So Ancelotti is the most conservative strategically, like the vast majority of Italian coaches. They will seek different answers when facing different opponents. But tactically speaking, they are the most flexible.

They never believed in "invincible tactics", and even if they did, they didn't have the resources to do so most of the time. So their daily thinking is "how to face tomorrow's opponent", how to make the team can maximize their advantages when facing weak teams, and contain the opponent's strong points when facing strong teams.

Therefore, Carlo Ancelotti understands the characteristics of his players better and will design tactics for his players rather than letting them fill in the positions on the tactical board.

This is in contrast to managers like Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola, who have been coaching at big clubs and need their bosses to pay for the tactical demands they insist on – although these tactics are also growing – to be more flexible and stronger than Benitez's 4-2-3-1 sticking to the same 4-2-3-1.

The Chinese national youth team is now defending and counterattacking, and the style of play with both wings flying together is carefully crafted by Madaloni, of course, there must be Lippi's guidance in this.